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Keeping my skills up

While I'm thrilled to be employed at a job that I love- thank you Evan, Cat, and the community- I need to keep my skills up and learn new ones if I'm going to continue to grow. I asked ChatGPT to assign me 5 tasks in AWS, so that I can better understand it. Here is what I learned (yes, I used ChatGPT to summarize):

Cloud Application Demo (AWS Serverless Architecture)

Technologies: AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, AWS CloudWatch

Designed and deployed a lightweight serverless application using AWS core services, demonstrating end-to-end cloud architecture
Built and tested a Python-based Lambda function to process events and return structured responses
Created and managed an S3 bucket for cloud-based object storage and static asset hosting
Implemented a DynamoDB NoSQL table to store and retrieve structured data (e.g., user records)
Provisioned and managed an EC2 virtual machine, including secure key pair generation and lifecycle management (launch, stop, terminate)
Monitored system activity and debugged executions using CloudWatch logs and metrics
Applied cost-control best practices by leveraging AWS Free Tier resources and shutting down compute services to prevent unnecessary charges